Handsaw



{No Model.)

W. H. DODGE.

I HAND SAW. No. 267,406- Patented Nov. 1.4, 1882.

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WALLACE H. DODGE, OF MISHAWAKA, INDIANA.

HAN DSAW.

SPECIFICATION forming art Of Letters Patent NO. 267,406, dated November 14, 1882.

Application filed August 30, 1882. (No model.)

[I 0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WALLACE H. DODGE, of Mishawaka, in the county of St. Joseph and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Handsaw-Frames; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and accurate description of the same.

My invention relates to that class of saws known as buck-saws, and it consists in a metallic socket for the stretcher and diagonal brace, whereby both are seated coincidently, yet independently, upon the front bar of the frame.

That others may fully understand my invention, I will particularly describe it, having reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a perspective view of my socket detached. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the saw-frame, with socket, brace, and stretcher in place.

A is the front bar of the frame. B is the rear or handle bar. '0 is the saw, and Gris the straining-rod. The stretcher D maintains the front and rear bars at a proper distance, and its'ends form the fulcra over which the front and rear bars act as levers to strain the saw when the straining-rod is shortened. Many common saw-frames have no other parts than those named above; butit has been found that with the bar A. My improvement removes allobjections from these last-named plans by seating the diagonal brace and stretcher independently upon the front bar, A, without introducing more than one fulcrumpoint. I

therefore make a metallic socket-piece, F, having a tenon,g, with shoulders h, extending in a plane at each side of it, so as to adapt it to be.

seated on the bar A, and keptin place thereon by the entrance of said tenon into a. suitable mortise made in said bar. ThevpieceFis provided with two cells or sockets, 'i k, to receive the stretcher and the diagonal brace respectively, and transmit the separate strains from each directly to the front bar, A.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is-- 1. The bars A B, saw 0, straining-rod G, stretcher D, and diagonal brace E, combined with the separable socket-plate F, adapted to receive and retain the ends of the braces, substantialiy as set forth.

2. A saw-frame composed of front and back bars, A B, straining-rod G, and stretcher D, combined with a diagonal brace, E, and a socket-piece, F, common to said diagonal brace and stretcher, whereby their strains are coincidently but separately transmitted to the bar A, as set forth. I

WALLACE H. DODGE.

Witnesses:

WILL W. DODGE, J OHN J. SOHINDLER. 

